The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . :^^v- s Jb^^mM Figure 135 Ill Fig. 134, shows an angle framed by dowels, havingon the one edge a bead, which breaks the joint; thiswould be used in framing a pilaster upon the end of acarcass. Fig. 135, shows two methods of framing an interiorangle. No. 1, Fig. 136, shows the method of framing athrough rail intersected into a center leg, not more thanthree inches square. No. 2 shows
The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . :^^v- s Jb^^mM Figure 135 Ill Fig. 134, shows an angle framed by dowels, havingon the one edge a bead, which breaks the joint; thiswould be used in framing a pilaster upon the end of acarcass. Fig. 135, shows two methods of framing an interiorangle. No. 1, Fig. 136, shows the method of framing athrough rail intersected into a center leg, not more thanthree inches square. No. 2 shows the construction ifthe center leg is above that size, and is not mortised ordowelled. No. 3 is copied from an old card-table; theshouldering and dovetailing of the rail show advantagesover No. 1, THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 233 A cornice may be worked out of the solid piece orbuilt up in various pieces. The latter form is usuallyadopted by cabinet-makers, except for small i, Fig. 137, shows a built-up mould; the pieces. Figure 136 should be glued and screwed together, blocks being putat the back to give additional strength. No. 2 showsa solid hardwood moulding faced upon softwood, themould having a rebate for the insertion of a dentil(shown by dotted lines), egg-and-dart, or other or-nament. Ofttimes the cabinet-maker is left to design themouldings, in which case it is absolutely necessary thathe be thoroughly conversant with the mouldings of theparticular style or period in which he is working, as aGothic mould would be out of place upon a Renaissancepiece of work, and a Jacobean cornice upon a Sheraton 234 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER job. If the designer is not conversant with the gram-mar of ornament, all kinds of incongruous mixtures are
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